After a couple of years of boys boys boys we're having a girl year. Eve just had twin ewes early Sunday sometime between 1 and 6 in the morning. A moorit and a black and white. Photos to come this weekend.
These are Flicker's babes from January 12. We are very pleased with the pairing of Jack Frost and Flicker -- they make such beautiful kids.
Milly is beginning to shed her cashmere so we'll begin combing the goats soon. It should be a good year for wool fleeces too because the winter was so incredibly cold and snowy! I'm sure the sheep knew it was coming as even the yearlings have huge fluffy coats. Our samoyed, Moonshine, is as big as a horse with his super heavy coat this year.
Note to self: watch fiber growth early in the fall to predict the winter ahead?
It may be another wet soggy springlike summer so we're looking at alternate places to garden. Right now we've been using a 30x100 spot down by the creek, road and old tobacco barn. We may continue to use it but only for early or tall crops like greens and salad vegetables with corn as the barn blocks the sun late in the year and if its damp not much does all that well. The okra, maters, cukes, and melons definitely need a new home. Hail tore it all apart last year just after the first corn was in but surely it can't happen 2 years in a row?!!?! Can it?!?!?!
